Track & Field Events

What are track & Field events in athletics?

The events categorized under track and field events involve skills like running, jumping and throwing. These events occur on a running track or a field for throwing and jumping events, hence the name Track and Field Events. The Track and Field events are divided into 3 broad categories: track events, field events, and combined events. The field events are again of two types: jump, and throws.

Types of Events in Track Events:-

• Sprints
• Middle Distance
• Long Distance
• Relay Races
• Hurdling

Types of Events in Field Events:-

Jump Events

• Long Jump
• High Jump
• Triple Jump
• Pole Vault

Throw Events

• Shot Put
• Discus Throw
• Javelin Throw
• Hammer Throw

Types of Events in Combined Events: Events in Athletics

The most widely recognized consolidated occasions are Men’s decathlon and Women’s heptathlon. The competitor takes part in a progression of occasions, acquiring focuses in every occasion and afterward the absolutely count of included focuses chooses the champ. Because of constraints of the arena, an indoor variant of joined occasions highlights less occasions: the men’s heptathlon and the ladies’ pentathlon.

• Road Running
• Cross Country Running
• Race Walking

Multiple Events

The most well-known consolidated occasions are Men’s decathlon and Women’s heptathlon. The competitor takes an interest in a progression of occasions, acquiring focuses in every occasion and afterward the absolutely count of included focuses chooses The Men’s Decathlon and Women’s Heptathlon incorporate a mix of occasions, held more than two days each. Focuses are granted for every occasion and the general victor is the competitor with the most focuses.

• The decathlon remembers ten occasions for the accompanying request, for the principal day: 100m, long bounce, shot put, high hop, 400m. The second-day occasions are 110m obstacles, disk toss, shaft vault, lance, 1500m.
• The heptathlon remembers seven occasions for the accompanying request, for the main day: 100m obstacles, high bounce, shot put and 200m. The second-day occasions are long bounce, lance, and 800m.the champ. Because of confinements of the arena, an indoor rendition of joined occasions highlights less occasions: the men’s heptathlon and the ladies’ pentathlon.

Walking Events

• Race strolling is an extraordinary long-separation race occasion in which the members must stroll as quick as possible, while they are relied upon to keep up great structure. The contenders are punished for twisting the knee as it goes under the body or having no foot-to-ground contact.
• The men contend in both 20km and 50km occasions, ladies just in the 20km occasion.

Marathon

• The long distance race is a long-separation running occasion, occurring over a course of 42.195km or (26 miles and 385 yds.) long.
• The long distance race was initially imagined as a race for the 1896 Olympics in Athens, recognizing the run of the fighter Pheidippides from a war zone at the site of the town of Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 B.C. Legend has it that Pheidippides conveyed the earth shattering message “Niki!” (“triumph”), at that point crumbled and passed on.
• The irregular separation of the long distance race is a consequence of the 1908 Olympic Games in London where the race separation was changed to 26 miles to make the progress from Windsor Castle to White City Stadium, with 385 yards included so the race could complete before regal family’s survey box.